Twelve Rooms with a View

And then all of a sudden you turned a corner and you were back in his apartment. His apartment was quite small. You would say that it was quite small in comparison to the size of the greenhouse, but the fact is that it was quite small in comparison to anything; it was one little room, right at the center of the roof. There was a linoleum counter and a kitchenette, completely cluttered with pots and pans and a blender and lots of mismatched dishes on open shelves. And then across from the counter there was a wall with a lot of books, all about plants, and a chair and a little table, and then to one side of that there was a big overstuffed blue couch that had magazines and books piled all over it, and then behind that, in a corner, there was an unmade bed. And then next to the bed there seemed to be some sort of closet, and then at the back of the closet, or to the side, actually, there was a very small bathroom that had a skylight and lots of plants in the bathtub. And then on the other side of the bathtub there was one of those Plexiglas walls they sell you in fancy bath stores, and just beyond the Plexiglas was the room with all the ferns. Seriously you could step out of that bathtub and into the greenhouse. I mean, Len had walls, he did have actual walls in some places, just not as many walls as most people have. So that the greenhouse actually did seem to grow out of that tiny apartment, and then it just kept growing.